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Me
Me
Me
Me
N
+
O
N+
10
N
O
N
O
1
5
5b
5a
-
O
MeCO2M + NH3
MeCN
10
Scheme 8.
Me
Me
N+
N
polymer
+
O
11
5a
-
O
+
HC CH
9
Scheme 9.
8. (a) Trofimov, B. A. In Adv. Heterocycl. Chem; Academic Press: San Diego,
1990; Vol. 51. pp 177–301; (b) Trofimov, B. A. The Synthesis, Reactivity,
and Physical Properties of Substituted Pyrroles; Wiley: New York, 1992. pp
131–298; (c) Mikhaleva, A. I.; Schmidt, E. Yu. In Selected methods for
synthesis and modification of heterocycles; IBS Press: Moscow, 2002; Vol. 1.
pp 334–352.
ketone 1 as shown in Scheme 8. Vinyl nitrene 10, released by the
decomposition of the intermediate oxazirane 5b, isomerizes proto-
tropically to acetonitrile, which is oxidized under the action of
alkaline metal hydroxides to sodium or potassium acetates
(Scheme 8).
The formation of 1-vinyl adamantane 9 is rationalized by an
alternative decomposition of nitrone 5a to deliver carbene 11
and nitrosoethene (Scheme 9). The carbene 11 rearranges to 1-vin-
yl adamantane 9.
Also noteworthy is the fact that the studied reaction allows O-
vinyl oximes 5 of acyl adamantanes, novel highly reactive deriva-
tives of adamantane, to be synthesized readily in high yield
(Scheme 2).
9. A mixture of 1 (1.00 g, 5.6 mmol), H2NOHÁHCl (2.90 g, 7.0 mmol) and pyridine
(15 mL) was heated (80 °C) for 2 h and then poured into water (80 mL). The
crystalline precipitate was filtered off, washed with water and dried in vacuo
to afford 1.05 g (yield 97%) of 2 as a white powder, mp 182–184 °C. 1H NMR
(400.13 MHz, CDCl3): d 8.82 (s, 1H, OH), 2.01 (m, 3H, H3, H5, H7), 1.82 (s, 3H,
Me), 1.75 (m, 6H, H4, H6, H10), 1.67 (m, 6H, H2, H8, H9). 13C NMR
(101.61 MHz, CDCl3): d 164.6 (C@N), 39.3 (C2, C8, C9), 38.3 (C1), 36.8 (C4,
C6, C10), 28.1 (C3, C5, C7), 9.2 (Me). IR (KBr) mmax: 3227 (OH), 1659 (C@N),
1446, 1359, 1342, 1270, 1010, 984, 936, 859, 771, 732, 665, 554, 459 cmÀ1
.
Anal. Calcd for C12H19NO (193.29): C, 74.57; H, 9.91; N, 7.25. Found: C, 74.78;
H, 9.98; N, 7.25.
10. A mixture of 2 (2.00 g, 10.3 mmol) and KOHÁ0.5H2O (0.84 g, 12.9 mmol) was
dissolved under heating (70 °C) in DMSO (50 mL). The solution of potassium
oximate thus obtained was placed into a 0.25 L steel rotating autoclave. Then
acetylene gas was transferred to the autoclave to remove air and the autoclave
was charged with acetylene again from a cylinder at room temperature (initial
pressure 13 atm). The autoclave was heated upon rotating (70 °C) for 30 min.
The reaction mixture, after being cooled to room temperature, was extracted
with pentane (10 mL Â 7). The pentane extracts were washed with cold water
(10 mL Â 3) to remove dissolved DMSO. The mixture was dried over K2CO3
overnight and the pentane was removed to yield a residue (1.93 g). After
column chromatography (basic Al2O3, hexane–ether 3:1) pure 5 was obtained
(1.81 g, 80%) as white crystals (mp 113–114 °C). 1H NMR (400.13 MHz, CDCl3):
Thus, a short-cut from 1-acetyl adamantane to 2-(1-adaman-
tyl)pyrrole and 2-(1-adamantyl)-1-vinylpyrrole via the isolable
intermediate O-vinyl oxime of 1-acetyl adamantane through the
reaction of the oxime of 1-acetyl adamantane with acetylene in
MOH/DMSO superbase systems has been realized. The combina-
tion of adamantane and pyrrole chemistry may lead to target com-
pounds such as drugs, fluorophores including BODIPY and other
advanced optoelectronic materials.
3
3
3
d 6.88 (dd, 1H, JBX = 14.2 Hz, JAX = 6.8 Hz, HX), 4.55 (dd, 1H, JBX = 14.2 Hz,
2JAB = 1.4 Hz, HB), 4.04 (dd, 1H, 3JAX = 6.8 Hz, 2JAB = 1.4 Hz, HA), 2.01 (m, 3H, H3,
H5, H7), 1.82 (s, 3H, Me), 1.77 (m, 6H, H4, H6, H10), 1.72 (m, 6H, H2, H8, H9).
13C NMR (101.61 MHz, CDCl3): d 166.6 (C=N), 152.8 (Ca), 87.0 (Cb), 39.3 (C2, C8,
Acknowledgments
The authors are grateful to the Russian Foundation for Basic Re-
search (Grant 07-03-92162-PICS_a) and the French Centre National
de la Recherché Scientifique (PICS 3922) for financial support.
C9), 38.3 (C1), 36.6 (C4, C6, C10), 28.0 (C3, C5, C7), 10.2 (Me). IR (KBr) mmax
:
2903, 2849, 1640, 1614, 1449, 1376, 1344, 1275, 1253, 1168, 1006, 985, 953,
888, 863, 831, 649. Anal. Calcd for C14H21NO (219.33): C, 76.67; H, 9.65; N,
6.39. Found: C, 77.00; H, 9.71; N, 6.69.
11. Schmidt, E. Yu.; Zorina, N. V.; Zaitsev, A. B.; Mikhaleva, A. I.; Vasil’tsov, A. M.;
Audebert, P.; Clavier, G.; Meallet-Renault, R.; Pansu, R. B. Tetrahedron Lett.
2004, 45, 5489–5491.
12. Miller, S. A. In Acetylene. Its Properties, Manufacture, and Uses; Ernest Benn
Limited: London, 1965; Vol. 1, p 506.
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1 h. The mixture was diluted with water (50 mL), extracted with diethyl ether
(10 mL Â 5), and the combined organics were washed with water (5 mL Â 3)
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product with the 3:1:adamantane ratio being 6:3:1 (GLC), corresponding to a
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3
3
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3
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thus obtained was placed into a 0.25 L steel rotating autoclave. Then acetylene